small press, big plans
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2011
The nice thing about the name “Chance Press” is that it’s easy to remember, and it is simple. The not-so-nice thing about it is that other people may end up using the same (or a similar) name. Bill at Bottle of Smoke Press probably doesn’t need to worry about this.
Recently, an anthology of comics by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2011
Normally, we don’t accept submissions, since we like to spend our time working on books rather than reading and responding to things. However, there are a couple openings in our schedule for early 2012 that we’re trying to fill.
The first project we want to do is the next installment in our widely respected Chance Press [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2011
Last you heard, we were working on a hardcover, deluxe edition of the Inkpoems book by MJP. Because the paper MJP uses for these works of art is so distinctive, I wanted to use it to cover the boards of the hardcover, making it the dominant component of the binding. Originally I thought I would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2011
So, what have your fine friends at Chance Press been up to the past couple months? Well, with the restoration of Carol Es’s books completed, we’ve been focusing on our next two projects, which we’re excited to announce:
Coming (hopefully) in June of this year is Ink Poems by Michael Phillips (MJP to you and me). [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2011
As a follow-up to my post about archival materials, I thought I’d write about fixing up Scribbles in a Sandstorm. Avid readers may recall that the problem we faced was that a particular kind of tape we used had some undesirable effects on paper – namely, that it turned paper yellow. I’m glad we caught [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2011
We published Dave Donovan as part of our first publication, the poetry anthology A Common Thread. Since then, however, we’ve been wanting to put out a book giving Dave center stage. I am the Circus is that book – a quick burst of four poems pulled from Dave’s past couple years of writing. He’s the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2011
A few months ago, I posted in the Bukowski.net forum about the materials Chance Press uses, noting that we use a lot of a particular type of tape, and that if there were ever a problem with that tape, all of our books would fall apart. Now, this tape wasn’t some cut-rate crap that we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2011
This was a fun one – a gift for Justine for her birthday this year. Ray Ceasar is her absolute favorite artist (I think he’s amazing as well, but I don’t like him anywhere near as much as she does), and we have a few books by him (including one in a clamshell case with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2011
Well, it’s pretty irresponsible to start working on a new title when I still haven’t finished making all of Carol Es’s book, and I still haven’t finished making the entire special edition of Acontextual Drawings… kind of feels like I started watching TV before I finished cleaning my room. Nevertheless, we’ll be releasing this pretty [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2011
Originally released as part of the very limited-edition artist book “Scribbles in a Sandstorm”, this excerpt from Los Angeles-based artist Carol Es’s sketchbook is now available from Chance Press as a standalone publication. Drawn somewhere between insomnia and dreaming, these sketches suggest the multilayered oil and mixed-media canvases for which [...]